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Pro Apple iPhones are the most important product, generating the highest sales of its entire portfolio. However, even record sales of 41,3 million units in the past quarter nestIt is intended to Apple held second place in smartphone sales.

Analytical IDC company in fact, it published a report on the current state of the global smartphone market. For the past quarter, according to IDC, all phone manufacturers managed to sell a whopping 342 million units. However, it is 1.8 percent less than in the same period last year. In fact, this is already the third quarter in a row that there has been a decline. This is only the fourth quarter in history in which the market has not grown. 

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A great success was recorded by Huawei, which with its 54,2 million units sold just surpassed it Apple and thus came in second place. That number means Huawei took a bite out of 15,8 percent of global sales, up from 11 percent last year. For Apple This is the first quarter since 2010 in which it did not rank first or second in sales. However, it is expected to return after the introduction of this year's models. minialmost in second place. For the sake of completeness, it is worth adding that the first place was of course taken by Samsung by a huge margin. It sold a total of 71.5 million smartphones, which represents a share of global sales of 20.9%. For Applem the Xiaomi company ended and OPPO, an almost unknown company here.

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Huawei is aware of its growth, as the company's representatives recently claimed that they will overtake in total smartphone sales in 2019 Apple. It is quite likely that this will happen, since already in 2017 Huawei sold 153 million units and Apple 215 million. The difference is big, but given the results of the past quarter, maybe this prediction will come true next year.

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